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Okay. So what if Mark Brewer decides to go ahead with the January 15
primary (ultimately it is his call...mostly...err...along
with Saulius Anuzis) - even if two of the three major
presidential candidates are not participating? Then what?
For those voters not enraptured by Hillary's inevitability, the
pickings are pretty slim: Dodd, Gravel and (whoops!) Kucinich. But what
about writing-in a candidate? A number of folks have suggested
writing-in Al Gore or one of the candidates who recently pulled their
names off the ballot. Yes, you will physically be able to do this. But
there's a problem: your
vote will probably never be counted. Why is that? Refer to
Michigan Election Law (MCL
168.737a):
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the
board of election
inspectors shall not count a write-in vote for a person unless that
person has filed a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate as
provided in this section. The write-in candidate shall file the
declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate with the filing
official for that elective office on or before 4 p.m. on the second
Friday immediately before the election. The secretary of state,
immediately after the 4 p.m. filing deadline under this subsection,
shall prepare and have delivered a list of all persons who have filed a
declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate under this subsection,
if any, to the appropriate county clerks. A filing official other than
the secretary of state who receives a declaration of intent to be a
write-in candidate or list of persons who filed a declaration of intent
from another filing official under this subsection shall prepare and
have delivered a list of all persons who have filed a declaration of
intent to be a write-in candidate to the board of election inspectors
in the appropriate precincts before the close of the polls on election
day.
In other words, under this provision (adopted in 1997 with little
fanfare), for Al Gore, Barack Obama, or John Edwards' write-in votes to
be counted, Al Gore, Barack Obama, or John Edwards would have to fill
out this
form declaring themself as a write-in candidate by the second
Friday before the election. Things could change of course, but at the
moment that doesn't seem very likely.
So what to do?
Well, the first thing is to try to convince Brewer (and...uh...Anuzis) to scrap the Jan.
15th primary. We know for sure that with only one major candidate,
Michigan's Jan. 15 will have no more actual relevance than the
"elections" they used to hold in the former Soviet Union. We may as
well move to February, where we'll probably
be irrelevant too. However, at least in February there is some shred of
a possibility that there could be a scandal, implosion or other
disturbance in the force that could change the landscape and make
Michigan matter again.
But if we're stuck January 15, then contest will become a
yes/no referendum on Hillary. Odds are, she will win hands down.
However, if there are a larger than expected number of votes
for the other three candidates, it could reflect badly on her at a very
early and important stage of the process. Hillary's people apparently
think this is an acceptable risk for them. I'm not so sure about that.
Ah well, stay tuned...
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Lots to talk about today, so let's get to it...
State Government
- Michigan Messenger: New DHS director faces some uncomfortable questions but passes confirmation hearing. Michigan's wannabe Ann Coulter tried to give Ismael Ahmed some grief yesterday, but the Senate's Families and Human Services Committee voted unanimously to support his appointment after hearing 30 speakers offer testimony in support of the new DHS Director.
- State News: Group seeks to extend term limits for state legislators. Term limits appear to be the hot topic since last week's budget deal went through.
- Rudy Giuliani: Michigan needs fiscal discipline. Rudy says the answer to Michigan's problems are more tax cuts. Boy, thanks for those pearls of wisdom.
- Senate Dems: Senate Democrats, Business Leaders Urge Support for Clean Energy Development. There's still more work to be done on the budget, but it's time to take up important bills on renewable energy and energy efficiency. The Bay City Times has a short post about this renewed legislative push here, and Kevin has a related post up about the BlueGreen Alliance over on Michigan Messenger.
- Department of History, Arts and Libraries: Great Lakes Arts, Culture, and Heritage Survey Results Give Michigan a Powerful Tool in Leveraging a Key Economic Sector. Okay, so that lengthy headline is pretty self-explanatory. Check out the release for more info.
Michigan's Economy
- AP: Go Solar program turns power users into power savers. "I view it as prepaying for utilities," said Skinner, 56. "We're bargaining over time that it'll be worth it because one day, we'll get free energy."
- DFP: Chrysler, UAW push the deadline. A nice update on the status of the negotiations. We'll know what happens by 11 a.m.
- State News: Adjunct physics professor at MSU wins Nobel Prize. "This year?s Nobel Prize for physics winners Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg?s research could potentially allow for more songs on an MP3 player or more memory on a laptop. Fert, an MSU adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, along with Grunberg, discovered and pioneered a giant magnetoresistance field in 1988."
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Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 13:54:21 PM EDT
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See Freep, Obama, Edwards, Richardson withdraw from Michigan primary (and the Daily Kos story of a similar name), Two of three leading Democratic presidential nominees have removed their names from the Jan. 15 Michigan presidential primary.
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards both filed paperwork to have their names withdrawn minutes ago with the Michigan Secretary of State's office.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson sent a letter yesterday, also asking to be taken off the list.
Today is the deadline for candidates to have their names removed.
Michigan Democrats were under pressure from the national party to disavow the state's recent move to push the primary ahead of both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary in violation of party rules.
The big question now is whether Sen. Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner among Democrats, will join the others and remove her name from the ballot.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Michigan Democrats would now switch to their original plan to hold a caucus on Feb. 9. ... Indeed. (And see my own 9/10/07 Daily Kos diary Barack, John, Hill: take your names off Fla./Mich. ballots!; not that that makes me a prophet, but...)
If Mark Brewer can't change the plan and have a February 9 caucus, perhaps he should consider resigning from office. He messed up seriously by caving in and supporting the rulebreaking early primary plan that defied the whole DNC and Howard Dean. (See my earlier diaries on this) How does he look now? And how do John and Debbie Dingell look? And, I must say, Jennifer Granholm and Andy Dillon, who were seduced by Mike Bishop into defying their own party's National Committee primary schedule?
I hope this all teaches the MDP a serious lesson; part of which is that they have done a terrible, terrible job for the Democrats, and the people, of Michigan. (Including wasting time on the early primary nonsense, rather than getting ready for the budget battle with the Republicans...)
Thanks to Barack, John, and Bill for upholding the integrity of the DNC primary process. (Note: as I'm completing this, I see the story's been frontpaged, http://michiganliber... . My commentary is something I want put up, though, so here we are.)
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Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 13:51:09 PM EDT
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4th Update: Et tu, Kucinich? (Freep)
3rd Update: Dodd stays in as well. (Politico) Statement from the Dodd campaign, courtesy of Tim Tagaris: ""We are committed to the importance of Iowa and New Hampshire going first, and we signed the four-state pledge to hopefully prevail upon the DNC and the state parties to add clarity to that situation. However, it does not benefit any of us if we are the nominee to pull our name off the ballot and slight Michigan voters," said communications director Hari Sevugan."
2nd Update: Clinton stays in. (AP story) BTW, Biden is also out.
Update: Here's a statement from the Edwards campaign, courtesy of Tracy Russo: "Michigan is a great state with some of the finest Democrats in the nation - but it's important we respect the role that the four early states play in the nominating process. In Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada voters can look their candidate in the eye and determine who is best to bring about real change in America. In these early states issues matter more than money, celebrity and advertisements. Voters want and deserve a candidate who represents real people, not corporate special interests, and this primary process will help ensure that's exactly what the American people get." -Edwards Campaign Manager David Bonior
From the Freep:
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards both filed paperwork to have their names withdrawn minutes ago with the Michigan Secretary of State's office.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson sent a letter yesterday, also asking to be taken off the list.
Today is the deadline for candidates to have their names removed.
Meanwhile, Christine Barry of Blogging for Michigan is liveblogging the Republican presidential debate in Dearborn.
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Our local Grand Rapids for Edwards / West Michigan OneCorps Marched in the Grand Rapids Labor Day Parade!
Thanks to Tony, June, Joe, Martha, Tim, David, Earl, Renee, Lainey, Earl Jr., Daniele, Wendy, Tony, Mary Ellen, Paul, Andy and Amy (and the two women I didn't meet) for Marching for John Edwards in the Grand Rapids Labor Day Parade. It was a huge success!
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Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 19:23:54 PM EDT
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Governor Granholm's response that Michigan issues needed to play a larger role in choosing the Democratic nominee are valid, but she fails to recognize that Senator Edwards has been responding to Michigan issues for his entire campaign.
Senator Edwards has dedicated his campaign to providing the most comprehensive and the most practical plans for helping Michigan.
Senator Edwards is a strong ally of labor, which has a very strong presence in the state of Michigan. He is ready and willing to stand up to any challenges to keep jobs in Michigan and make sure that companies that take jobs from Michigan and send them to China will not be rewarded by the federal government.
Edwards has laid out the most comprehensive plan for health care, which will leave NO ONE behind. He admits that his plan will be expensive (though it will cost less each year than the war in Iraq), but he is willing to make cuts in other areas to guarantee that all of Michigan's citizens have health care. Elizabeth Edwards likes to challenge the other Democrats in the field to provide equally effective health care plans, by asking voters to question the other candidates about health care. When asked how many people will still be uninsured if your plan goes into effect, John is the only candidate that can respond with a confident: "Zero"
Environmental Concerns are also at the fore-front of Senator Edwards campaign. He was the first major candidate to release a realistic plan for the environment and it remains the most comprehensive of all of the candidates. Michigan's environmental needs have always been addressed by the Edwards campaign.
...the list could go on and on.
At the end of the day, which candidate was (and still is) talking about Michigan's issues before the state primary was changed?
Only...John Edwards
John doesn't need to campaign in Michigan to make Michigan issues stand out, because his campaign has always embodied Michigan's needs and with David Bonior at the helm, that isn't soon to change!
Michigan needs John Edwards!
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Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 14:06:35 PM EDT
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(Topical, but not in an ointment sort of way - promoted by Eric B.)
As ethics demand they should. See, e.g., Daily Kos, Breaking: John Edwards signs Four State Pledge. It reveals that Obama, Edwards, Dodd, Richardson, and Biden have all done the right thing and pledged to stick with the four states Howard Dean and the DNC are happy with keeping first: a geographically diverse array of early primary/caucus states, Iowa (Midwest), New Hampshire (Northeast), South Carolina (South, and considerable African-American representation), and Nevada (West, and considerable Latina/o representation). I could write a long thing about this, but...does the Granholm/Brewer/Dingell early primary idea look like a GOOD IDEA
now?
Maybe not, huh.
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Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 07:37:51 AM EDT
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Thanks to JPowers155 for picking up my Wednesday Coffee Talk shift. Have a great Labor Day weekend and enjoy your morning cup-o-links...
Elections
- Capitol Journal: Dems, Obama winning online. Spartan Internet Consulting Corp's new Internet Political Performance (SIPP) Index proves what we already knew... Dems are kicking ass online.
- AP: Michigan House OKs moving presidential primary to Jan. 15. It looks like the 1/15 presidential primary is moving forward. Yesterday Wyoming jumped ten days ahead of us on the primary calendar, so I say we really mess with their heads and re-schedule ours for next Tuesday.
- Lessenberry: Primary Concerns. Jack weighs in on all the primary date hopping. You can listen to his interview with Rep. Stupack about the primaries here. You can also read Brewer's statement about yesterday's news here.
- Michigan for Edwards: The Carpenters Union Endorses John Edwards. Here come the labor endorsements. Sen. Dodd picked up the support of the IAFF this week.
- Walberg Watch: David Nacht Is Out. An interesting development in the 7th. You can read more in the Ann Arbor News and over on Swing State.
Legislation
- Skubick: Racinos revive on tax issue. The Skoob updates us on the latest
scheme idea floating around Lansing to close the budget deficit.
- Senate Dems: Sen. Basham Introduces Climate Change Legislation. Read more about Sen. Basham's package of bills which aim to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in Michigan.
- Senate Dems: Hunter Neighborhood Improvement Authority Bill Headed to Governor. Sen. Hunter's bill allows municipalities to create neighborhood improvement authorities within certain geographical locations to stimulate housing and other economic development projects.
- LSJ: Senate bill would let a quarter of state workers retire early. BFM has more on yesterday's action in the Senate. You can watch Sen. Switalski's video response right after the vote here.
Labor
- Conservative Media: Celebrate Labor Day and unions contribution to the country. The Comm Guru takes a look at the real meaning of Labor Day, and the labor movement's contributions to Michigan's middle class.
- Stone Soup Musings: AFL-CIO: Quality health care for ALL in 2009. The labor movement gave us the weekend... now they have their sights set on quality healthcare for all Americans by the end of the decade. Kathy has more.
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Mon Aug 06, 2007 at 18:25:22 PM EDT
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UPDATE: Nirmal gave me the official OK to put his pic up, so there you go--bask in the glory of his "Walmart Kills Kittens" T-Shirt below!
I went, I saw, I returned. I'm not one of the more prominent or prolific Kossacks, and I didn't have any idea what to expect or what (if anything) I might be able to contribute. Even so, the closeness of the venue this year (I'm in a suburb of Detroit) combined with the realization that I haven't been on an overnight trip by myself (ie, no family) in a whopping 7 years made it a no-brainer to attend.
The first thing I'll say is that I should've paid more attention to the schedule--for some reason I was under the impression that Dean's keynote address on Thursday evening was the first event; sadly, this meant that my Thursday afternoon arrival (followed by having to check in, find my hotel room, etc) resulted in my missing several sessions earlier that day. Worse yet, the timing of my *return* trip meant that I missed all of the closing stuff on Sunday. Live and learn; lesson for next year: if you want the full experience, show up the day before and don't leave until the evening of the last day.
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 14:07:55 PM EDT
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(Report from the CDA Convention last week - promoted by lpackard)
Joining together in a state that doesn't sell liquor after 7pm, doesn't sell anything but food until after 2pm on Sunday and that proudly flies the Confederate flag in front of the capitol this past weekend were hundreds of college democrats from around the country.
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 at 17:35:26 PM EDT
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Sunday on CNN Edwards' campaign manager, David Bonior, went after two especially weak spots in Hillary Clinton's record. During a preview of the YouTube debate that featured spokespeople for the top three campaigns, former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, speaking for Clinton, claimed that Hillary had "delivered" on health care. Bonior was having none of it.
With all due respect ... they had a very important choice to make back in '93: whether to do the North American Free Trade agreement or health care. They implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement that put literally millions of workers out of work in this country and destroyed, basically, our good trading relationships we had around the world. And then in the interim, they lost any capital they had to get health care passed. ... The fact of the matter is it's been an absolute disaster on health care.
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Mon Jul 23, 2007 at 11:43:49 AM EDT
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After tonights YouTube debate, John Edwards will be going online live to answer your questions on his website.
You can submit your questions now, and then join the live conversation with John Edwards a few minutes after the debate. Send in your question in writing-or in your own web video. You can even submit your question by texting "DEBATE" to 30644 from your mobile phone. However you reach out, John wants to hear from you-because this campaign is not about one voice, it's about all of us joining together to change this country.
It seems everything will be online at: http://www.johnedwar...
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Tue Jul 17, 2007 at 17:47:31 PM EDT
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Michigan, it's time to rally around Ann Arbor (I know ... I know ... "Phil's going Wolverine crazy cuz it's getting close to football season!" ... well ... yes ... but this time I'm talking about something else).
The Eventful Edwards Competition is over tomorrow -- so this is your last chance to vote. The only Michigan city that is close to the #1 spot is Ann Arbor with 589 demands, currently putting it in fourth place. John Edwards will come to the winning city and answer our questions.
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 at 21:51:19 PM EDT
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(From our old friend Sen. Schauer. Hey Mark! What's this about Buzz Thomas jumping on the Obamarama bandwagon? ;) - promoted by Hazen Pingree)
UPDATE: Live stream available here (Dodd's website)
In case folks hadn't heard about it yet, the NAACP will be hosting a forum for the 2008 presidential candidates at the Cobo Center in Detroit at 10:30 AM tomorrow morning. As I'm sure all of you know by now, I'm supporting Hillary in this race, but no matter which candidate you're backing, this is a great opportunity to see all the contenders up close.
Doors are set to open at 8:30 AM, and since seating is on a first come, first serve basis, I encourage everyone to get there early.
For any other Hillary supporters out there who are interested in participating in a visibility rally, please join us at the corner of Washington and Cobo Centre Drive to show your support. We'll start gathering at 7:00 AM, and there will be t-shirts and buttons on-hand for supporters!
If you're interested in attending, you can RSVP for the event here.
If any of the other candidates or their supporters are planning a similar rally, I encourage you to share the details in the comments section below.
As I said, this forum is a great opportunity to see all the candidates in person, and hear about their vision for Michigan and our country. I hope to see you there!
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(Good first-hand account of Edwards' last visit to Michigan - promoted by lpackard)
Well, it's two weeks late (hardly BREAKING anymore), but here's my full write-up of the Edwards fundraising event I attended on 14 June.
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Fri Jun 22, 2007 at 14:45:30 PM EDT
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In 2005, I was the co-organizer of the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor chapter of Opportunity Rocks - one of the programs John Edwards launched that is being scrutinized by The New York Times.
The Opportunity Rocks project brought together students from many different communities on our campus along with community service organizations in Detroit to build a broad-based coalition dedicated to fighting poverty. It helped us all get out of our individual issue 'silos' and concentrate on the larger issue of poverty, which cuts across many different issues and affects many different kinds of people.
Over two-thousand students attended John Edwards' speech, and I remember looking at the crowd and noticing that a large majority were freshmen, a lot of who probably came from pretty affluent backgrounds and probably weren't that aware of poverty before.
But it was a lot more than just John Edwards giving a speech - we brought people into the city, we linked up with community service organizations, and we participated in community service projects that same day. It wasn't about politics - it was about helping people in the community. One thing I learned and that I think other students learned was that it has to be about that - it has to be about working with the groups that are active in the community fighting poverty, and working with the people that are affected by poverty, and this helped me realize that.
Also, because we talked a lot about poverty from a policy perspective, it helped us think about the structural changes that can be made to fight poverty - like raising the minimum wage - in addition to the work we can all be doing at the grassroots level.
Edwards' speech helped raise awareness among everyone there, but especially among those first-years who hadn't had the same awareness of poverty before and who hadn't been involved in community service projects before.
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Okay, so my good friend Senator Schauer has decided to become
a
Hillarista. Fair enough. But now it's my turn to put in a
plug for Obamarama. (Incidentally, I was pleased to see today that Kos
and I seem
to be in agreement
that Hillary will ultimately prove to be a paper tiger. Sorry, Mark.)
First of all, I obviously don't give a flying f*$k what
middle name
Sen. Obama's parents decided to give him - just as I don't care that
John
McCain's middle name happens to be "Sidney" or that John
Edwards'
actual name is the somewhat goofy "Johnny Reid Edwards." If
this
country is so full of imbeciles that they turn against a guy because of
his middle name, then we may as well quit now because we deserve
whatever tyrant we get.
As I said before, the war in Iraq is at the top of my list of candidate
criteria.
And on this score, Edwards and Clinton voted
for it. Obama didn't.
I
know, I know. That was a long time ago (4 years, 8 months and 10 days,
to be exact) and Obama wasn't even in the Senate then. Get over this
silly fixation of yours already, Pingree!
Well, I have some more to say about all of that...in
just a
bit.
But first I want to talk about
one of the many
other
reasons why Barack Obama is the right man at the right time
for
America
and for Michigan (cue swelling patriotic horn section here).
The Detroit Economic Club speech
You may have heard that Sen.
Obama dropped by the to see the disproportionately rich and
powerful crowd at the Detroit
Economic Club last month. The local media
and a number of local politicos had more than a few things to say about
Obama's
speech - and let's just say not
all of them were kind (to put it mildly).
If you haven't yet, I encourage you to read the Obama's actual
text here.
Now...Obama could have decided to
use the same worn-out speech that Democratic presidential candidates
always use when they campaign in Michigan. You know the one I'm talking
about. It's the one with all
of the approved
buzzwords: "fair trade, not free trade", "raise the minimum wage",
"don't ship jobs to Mexico", etc. Usually the candidate says all of
this while wearing a union starter jacket and standing in front of a
bunch of people in shirts that say things like "Underwater
Basketweavers International Union for _______."
But Obama didn't go with the "safe" speech.
(More below the jump...)
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John Edwards is in Detroit today talking about his plan to guarantee quality, affordable health care for every American (Read more on that, here). In conjunction with his appearance, we were thrilled to announce 50 Michigan Democratic leaders who have endorsed John Edwards.
As you all know, we've already received the support from two of Michigan's Democratic leaders, Congressman Bart Stupak and former Congressman David Bonior, who is leading the campaign as the National Campaign Manager.
Today, Congressman Bonior said:
"I can't think of anything more important that I could be doing than working to elect John Edwards our next president. He is a leader in the fight for social and economic justice in our country and I'm proud to be a part of his campaign to create a working society where every person who works hard has the chance to achieve the American Dream."
For the full list of endorsers and some more remarks, take the jump...
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Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 12:11:24 PM EDT
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The Sun
Former Sen. John Edwards, left, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama during the Democratic presidential primary debate in Manchester, N.H., June 3, 2007.
I sort of watched last night's debate, when the bloviation reached the painfully embarrassing level I would switch channels in favor of a program about the physics of the Sun, about which it may not be possible to bloviate.
Switching back and forth between those two particular shows created a kind of auditory strobe effect, in one moment the undeniable reality of the physical processes taking place on the Sun, in the next the equally undeniable bullshit taking place in a suburb of our solar system known as New Hampshire.
One self serving statement followed another, charges of timidity and lack of leadership leveled by Edwards against Clinton and Obama, charges of being 41/2 years late with leadership leveled against Edwards by Obama.
I had just returned from the Sun when those barbs were hurled and it struck me that it was possible that no one on the stage possessed the ability to lead a rifle squad down the street to buy a newspaper.
They all had their moments I suppose but during one orbit I heard Clinton say:
"The differences among us are minor, the differences between us and the Republicans are major. And I don't want anybody in America to be confused."From "Democrats Focus on Iraq In Contentious Second Debate" by Anne Kornblut and Dan Balz at The Washington Post
That was a bit of truth because, although I might have to hold my nose to vote for her and others on the stage last night, I am not capable of the kind of confusion that would lead me to vote Republican.
In her truthiness however, Ms Clinton neglected to mention the incredible similarities between the Democrats and the Republicans in their insatiable eagerness to sell out to the highest corporate bidder.
Iraq and health care seemed to take up most of the debate and I don't remember hearing a word about campaign and ethics reform, no mention of the lizards of K Street and their influence in preventing the delivery of Health care and prescription drugs as well as their influence in going to war and prolonging it.
To be fair though, it may have come up while I was eight light minutes away.
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Lunch with John Edwards
Thursday, 14 June
(that's in two weeks)
The 12:30 lunch is $250/person (which is as close to reasonable for a presidential candidate as these things get)
Place: Still TBA (but it will be in metro Detroit; I should know the specific place later by Monday)
I'll have more information on how to donate and more specifics later.
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